Bill Brown Knihy

With energy and insight, Bill Brown paints a vivid and lively picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of the war, the hunger for opportunity, the growing pace of modernization, and the pride and optimism that held communities together. Londoners were intent on getting themselves back on their feet, and it provided the perfect opportunity for a boy with ambition and a lively imagination. Born in Brixton, South London, in 1942, Bill Brown was a lovablekid with a nose for mischief. Left to his own devices while both his parents went out to work, if there was trouble to be had Bill would be in the thick of it. Ignoring the shaking of fists from his neighbors, his mother's scoldings, and the regular thwack of the cane on his bottom at school, Billy wheeled and dealed, charmed Woolies' Girls, planned coronation celebrations, ran circles around circus performers, and persuaded villains to work on his terms.

Bestselling Amazing Days of Abby Hayes author Anne Mazer reaches out to younger readers with this magical take on sibling rivalry.Mabel is looking forward to the start of school, where she plans to take third grade by storm. It will also give her a little break from worrying about her little sister's magic. But Violet is about to enter kindergarten at the same school. What will happen if she lets her magic loose in the classroom? How will Mabel keep the teachers and other students from finding out about Violet's secret? Things may not be as easy as she hoped!

Within the ephemera of everyday life—old photographs, circus posters, iron toys—lies a challenge to America's dominant cultural memory. Bill Brown recovers what this memory has overlooked in the "material unconscious" of Stephen Crane's work, revealing the textual residues of daily sensations that contribute to a new history of the American 1890s. Crane's disavowal of an emerging mass culture, encompassing football games, freak shows, roller coasters, and early cinema, recontextualizes the decade as an underexposed moment in the genealogy of modernism and modernity. Brown's narrative begins on the Jersey Shore in Asbury Park, where Crane, overshadowed by his father's strict Methodist ideals, embraced the popular amusements his father condemned. Coastal resorts became a battleground for debates on technology, visibility, and access to leisure. From this recreational backdrop, Brown transitions to New York's Bowery, where Crane navigated the visual culture of dime museums, minstrel shows, and the Kodak craze, obscuring racial typologies. Throughout, Brown illustrates how evolving attitudes toward play reshaped perceptions of war, childhood, nationhood, and culture itself. By introducing concepts like "recreational time," "abstract leisure," and the "amusement/knowledge system," he lays the groundwork for a new politics of pleasure, asserting that understanding the interplay between canonical literature and mass culture reveals

Recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation/science-fiction.On rencontre parfois d'étranges visiteurs. Parfois ils font peur, et parfois ils séduisent. Ils étonnent en tout cas par leur allure, leurs habitudes, ce qu'ils font deviner des mondes d'où ils arrivent, des civilisations d'ailleurs, d'hier, ou de nulle part. Christian Poslaniec en a réunis ici plusieurs, porteurs de mystères et de rêves, et de questions. A travers les histoires de Gérard Klein, de Bill Brown, de Robert Sheckley, de Julia Verlanger ou d'Erik Frank Russell, ou du plus ancien Théophile Gautier, on rit, on s'inquiète, on pousse des portes inattendues.